India's Deep Sea Mission is on the right track, and the discovery of an active hydrothermal vent 4,500 metres below the ...

At hydrothermal vents, the energy from the breakdown of hydrogen sulfide, a common compound in vent plumes, drives chemosynthesis, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Yet amazing communities of life exist at hydrothermal vents and the so ... A string of clams winds across a vent. Through chemosynthesis, it turns out. Vent species rely not on photons from ...